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But people are always blaming crypto miners for the shortage of GPUs.

> 20th century libertinism peaked in the 70s and has been in retreat since then.

I agree with the 70s. The AIDS epidemic began in the 80s, which could have been a big reason. The wild and free way of life has been in retreat, and epidemics cause big chunks to be lost all at once. Maybe we'll look back on 2020s the same way: "Wow society was so wild and free up until the 2010s."

Which itself was a reference to the pornographic film of the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(film)

You think "SPAC King" Chamath Palihapitiya should be in prison?

I like the way each one is hard panned left and right.

Can a ccTLD be converted to a gTLD? Is that sort of what happened to .io?

It's similar to smartphones. Android users express hate for iPhones and Apple way more than the reverse. Also I'd bet there's a correlation between smartphone brand and animal preference, with Android users preferring dogs and iPhone users preferring cats.

I figured it wasn't effortless to run, but they're adding new TLDs all the time like .ninja, .wow, .xyz and are up to over 1500 different TLDs. Compared to creating a random new TLD, is keeping .tw around really such a burden if there are many websites already using it?

Why not just keep it? Most TLDs aren't even linked to a country, so if a country stops existing it would just become another TLD not linked to a country.

Donal Logue also played Kevin Mitnick's friend in Takedown.

https://i.redd.it/s884e47lejv41.png

(Also in that scene, a cameo by the real Tsutomu Shimomura)

A lot of providers won't accept medicare because what they pay out is significantly lower compared to private insurance. That's why Obama's "If you like your doctor, you get to keep your doctor." promise was such a big deal.

Knowing Musk he'd totally be down for changing it to 420.

I know it uses React, the React Developer Tools icon lit up when I went to the site.

What's more, if you want it to only do this when passed new props and not at other times, you have to use things like React.memo:

"If your component renders the same result given the same props, you can wrap it in a call to React.memo for a performance boost in some cases by memoizing the result. This means that React will skip rendering the component, and reuse the last rendered result."

https://reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html#reactmemo

Yes, absolutely. But then again AI bias in other areas have the same kind of explanation.

That is true, and diet could be a factor. Also I read men's testosterone levels have been dropping which could lead to them starting to shave later.

I mean, they looked more adult. If you look at a high school year book from decades ago the seniors look like they're in their 30s. Maybe this means time is speeding up, or that life was harder then which aged them, like how outdoor cats often look all haggard. Then again was life really that much harder in the 1960s?

Audiotool?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulWz9_Oe_oI

That comic reminds me of all the times I've seen someone pose the Monty Hall Problem without mentioning that the host always reveals a goat on first round.

Well my thinking was that the investment in automation will only be made by the very large chains initially, so there won't be room for smaller players to undercut them. Eventually I guess it will become widespread but this will take a while, and by then the economics of a lot of other things will have evolved. So I can't picture one day McDonald's saying "Hey, our prices are now halved" but it could take the form of the prices rising slower relative to everything else over years.

I welcome the automation too, although I bet the food won't be any cheaper.

Agree, and at least in-person meetings give you human contact. Zoom meetings are like giving yourself a sunburn but also not getting any Vitamin D in the process.

> They know beforehand what the researchers are interested in, and introduce noise that effects all the measures _except_ the ones the researchers said they were interested in looking at beforehand.

Isn't there a danger in the census statisticians doing the same thing? That they'll introduce noise that affects looking at the data in ways that they didn't anticipate or allow for. Or even that hinders drawing conclusions that go against current dogma.

How do you know when you have the laser, and can you choose whether or not to use it?

> On YouTube some years ago, there was a kid in Australia who made a series of videos where his Mum would try a different OS in each episode. IIRC, most were Linux distributions.

Yeah, I quite liked those videos. This is the channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjXNz9JNSuE8n-Oej4Rflw

They might have found it and then chosen somewhere else to go.

We slowed down the economy in 2020 and the rich only got richer faster.

I always thought it was weird that colleges have sports teams, then again in Japan companies often have sports teams.

Can the electricity be efficiently transmitted that far though? If so, this idea is incredible, the sun is always shining somewhere on Earth.

The only way I can think of is to pay down the debt. Of course we're going in the opposite direction.